The WHO Doesn t Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize | City Journal
The frontrunner for this year s Nobel Peace Prize, according to the bets placed with British bookmakers, is the World Health Organization. It s hard to imagine a worse choice. (Okay, Vladimir Putin.) The bettors theory is that the Nobel committee will honor the WHO for its efforts in fighting Covid-19 but it would be absurd to reward an organization that began the pandemic by spreading deadly misinformation, went on to promote disastrous policies, and now seeks new powers to do even more damage next time.
The Nobel jurors in Norway should be honoring the pandemic s true heroes, starting with an obvious candidate across their border: Anders Tegnell, the state epidemiologist of Sweden. While the WHO and the rest of the world panicked, he kept calm. While leaders elsewhere crippled their societies, he kept Sweden free and open. While public-health officials ignored their own pre-Covid plans for a pandemic and the reams of reports warning that lockdowns, school closures, and masks would accomplish little or nothing Tegnell actually stuck to the plan and heeded the scientific evidence.